“A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King.”
Emily Dickinson
SpringJoy
Nature Quotes
135 FAMOUS QUOTES · NATURE
Nature Quotes
Read 200 of the best nature quotes from Lao Tzu, the Atharva Veda, Rabindranath Tagore, Wordsworth, Thoreau and John Muir, on trees, mountains, the sea, seasons and caring for our planet.
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
WinterHope
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
George Santayana
SeasonsContentment
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
Anne Bradstreet
WinterSpring
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.”
John Keats
AutumnPoetry
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)
SpringPoetry
“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James
SummerBeauty
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Attributed to Pablo Neruda
SpringHope
“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:11)
SpringRenewal
“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
RainAcceptance
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
Attributed to John Ruskin
WeatherPositivity
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him?”
The Bible (Psalm 8:3-4)
StarsHumility
“I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
StarsDreams
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
Immanuel Kant
StarsAwe
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
StarsWonder
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
Sarah Williams
StarsCourage
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
StarsHope
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
Helen Keller
SunshinePositivity
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain
MoonHuman Nature
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Attributed to Buddha
TruthSun And Moon
“The sun goes to cross the Western sea, leaving its last salutation to the East.”
Rabindranath Tagore
SunsetPoetry
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Carl Sagan
StarsScience
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
Plato
AstronomySoul
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
Ptolemy
StarsWonder
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Anatole France
AnimalsLove